Mrs. Mittan
English 9
December 1 2014
Animal Farm Essay
Do you think that in all the hard working strong built up animals in animal farm are equal or are only some equal than others? “All animals are equal but some animals are equal than others” Animal Farm, by George Orwell, deserves to be a classic because it functions on so many levels, as a novel, a satire, a fable and an allegory.
Animal Farm is a novel of the Russian Revolution. A novel is a long fictional story usually between 100-500 pages. Animal Farm is a novel because Napoleon creates a world where the animals have no power except for the pigs and him. The rebellion against the humans for the start of communism “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from …show more content…
Satire is a form of literature that uses ridicule to make specific events and people look foolish or stupid. Animal Farm functions as a satire. Old major’s ideas create suffering even though they are mean to help the farm and the animals without Mr. Jones. “Now comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short…. “(Orwell pg.28). “…. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labor is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems” (Orwell pg. 28). Napoleon who is the leader of the farm and who is supposed to make life better for the animals only succeeds at making life better for the pigs then life easier for the animals who are the ones who do all the work and giving the milk and apples to the pigs and more food to them. When Napoleon states to the animals that it was not possible to bring back Boxer’s remains from the hospital but really because Boxer was sold to the knackers so the pigs with the money could buy their wine that’s why they couldn’t bring back his …show more content…
A fable is a brief humorous story in which animals speak and act like humans. Animal farm functions as a fable through the book. The pigs are becoming more and more like humans because they run the farm like business, they generate a lot of paperwork, such as reports, memos, files, which they burn after reading them. When the pigs are walking on two feet, and they see Napoleon walking this way with a whip on his hoof “but just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of “Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better” (Orwell pg. 132). When the pigs buy newspapers, radios, and telephones. To get information and communicate with the humans. The pigs converting the farm to a more human version of a farm by removing the hoof and horn from the flag and changing the farm name from Animal Farm to back to Manor Farm. “Napoleon was only now for the first time announcing it- that name “Animal Farm” had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”- which, he believed, was its correct and original name” (Orwell pg. 138). “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell pg.